I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
-Warren Buffett

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
-Warren Buffett

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
-Warren Buffett

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
-Warren Buffett

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
-Warren Buffett

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
-Warren Buffett

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
-Warren Buffett

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
-Warren Buffett

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don’t curse the darkness, light a candle
-Chinese Proverb

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
-William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
-Samuel Johnson

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
-Albert Einstein

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
-Leon J. Suenes

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas Jefferson

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
-Theodore T. Hunger

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
-Robert Collier

The man who fails to plan is the man who plans to fail
-Proverb

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
-Vince Lombardi

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
-Shakespeare

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
-J. Petit Senn

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Character is, for the most part,
simply habit become fixed.
-C. H. Parkhurst

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
-Solomon Ibn Gabriol

If you would know the road ahead, ask someone who has traveled it.
-Chinese Proverb

"The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done."
-Allard Lowenstein